Practice Index

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We know that neighbourhood teams need strong, collaborative general practice at their core, one Practice Manager said. Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) are expected to continue supporting practices in delivering a modern general practice model, improving access, continuity and overall patient experience.

Admissions 64

Admissions Follow-Up Appointments Collaboration 64

CollaborateMD

MARCH 20, 2025

Reporting and Analytics : Provide actionable insights into practice performance, patient trends, and revenue generation. Task Automation : Simplify repetitive tasks such as sending reminders, generating reports, or follow-ups with automation. Is the data backed up on a mirrored out-of-state site?

Appointments 52

Appointments Billing Scheduling HIPAA 52

Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2025

In this follow-up graph, we can see differences in health citizens’ trust in media to report health information vary by country, with the U.S. As health influence shifts more local, these community touchpoints become trust haloes for legacy health care providers and stakeholders in collaboration.

Collaboration 62

Collaboration Huddles/Rounds Follow-Up Communication 62

Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2025

Even though women comprise one-half of the world’s population, their health outcomes and inputs do not match up to men’s: there’s a women’s health gap on Planet Earth. ” In the 2025 update, we get more granular data from which the WEF and McKinsey collaborators can develop the blueprint for action.

Follow-Up 83

Follow-Up Collaboration Best Practices Patient Experience 83

Medical Economics

JUNE 20, 2025

A longitudinal study published in JAMA found that gait speed was independently associated with increased risk of dementia, institutionalization and mortality over a five-year follow-up period. Other studies have identified gait speed and variability as emerging indicators of cardiovascular health.

Vital Signs 52

Vital Signs Billing Medication Follow-Up 52

Health Populi

JULY 24, 2025

The DIY food-health concept, coined by Nielsen, was the build-up of our “pandemic pantries.” We see grocers ranking lower for “high trust” than doctors or nutritionists, but “some trust” nets the trust as influencer up to near highs with that pharmacist or pharmacy.

Collaboration 71

Collaboration Follow-Up Insurance Medication 71

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 16, 2025

Daily Dive M-F Payer Weekly Every Wednesday IT Weekly Every Thursday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Disparate systems lead to disconnected experiences. Fragmented architecture can fuel poor patient experiences and negatively impact satisfaction with healthcare services.

Patient Care 52

Patient Care Follow-Up Patient Experience Patient Records 52

Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2025

The youngest cohort of health citizens, Gen Z, are Wellness Explorers, Rock Health coins, most owning a wearable or connected device and two-thirds tracking at least one health metric that way — menstruation ranking first, followed by weight and physical activity. At the same time, age is just one part of the story.”

Collaboration 62

Collaboration Follow-Up Medication Patient Experience 62

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Notwithstanding the controversy stirred up by the Hims & Hers commercial (which EDO termed a “Big Game Debut”), clearly, health and well-being ads landed pretty well at the Big Game, and their presence among commercials for cars, beers, and food held up against these traditional ad categories in terms of engagement.

Follow-Up 71

Follow-Up Collaboration Medication Insurance 71

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Elsevier first conducted research among doctors and nurses for the Clinician of the Future report in 2022, following up this year’s survey research online among 2,607 clinicians working around the world: Elsevier polled 365 U.S. clinicians for the 2023 research (fielded in April and May 2023).

Collaboration 101

Collaboration Follow-Up Care Plan Communication 101

Health Populi

DECEMBER 7, 2022

For many years, I have followed the activities of CHPA, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association , and have participated in some of their conferences. Their recent announcement of a collaboration with Dollar General speaks to the growing role of self-care for all people. Or in my own take on this… the patient is the payor.

Collaboration 62

Collaboration Patient Experience Follow-Up Medication 62

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.”

Follow-Up 150

Follow-Up Hospital Admissions Best Practices 150

Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. Live video calls were used by most people across all age groups assessed (18-34, 35-54, and 55+).

Follow-Up 174

Follow-Up Hospital Insurance Medication 174

Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Across all providers, AmWell scored highest at 885, followed by Doctor on Demand with 879 points. Cigna, the highest-scoring payer-backed telehealth organization, racked up 874 points on the 1,000-point scale. In the study, J.D. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.

Physical Exams 147

Physical Exams Customer Service Follow-Up Insurance 147

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Telehealth vendors are collaborating with pharmacies and other retail health sites to scale offerings in communities visible to consumers to help virtual care become more accessible and “discoverable.” Addressing chronic disease was cited by 17% of providers, followed by follow-up care and oncology.

Follow-Up 97

Follow-Up Insurance Communication Collaboration 97

Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But if they were offered telehealth services, most people over 50 would be interested in care when traveling, for follow-up visits (say, to manage previously-diagnosed chronic conditions like heart disease or diabetes), and after surgeries. We’re in the Field of Dreams moment in telehealth, especially for older people.

Follow-Up 83

Follow-Up Appointments Collaboration Scheduling 83

Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

The consulting team assesses both patient experience and care pathways, beyond just the historical role of selling medical devices to health care providers. For this service, Philips is collaborating with the Toothpic dental network. Sean grew up in Teesside in Yorkshire, in northeastern England.

Follow-Up 96

Follow-Up Patient Experience Collaboration Hospital 96

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We meet George and Audrey in their open kitchen-dining room space, with George finishing up a conversation with his cardiologist via a tablet.

Discharges 144

Discharges Hospital Follow-Up Vital Signs 144

Health Populi

JULY 15, 2019

For context, this chapter follows two that explain how patients in the U.S. My most recent favorite is Xealth, which enables providers to “prescribe,” or order up, stuff for patients from one platform via streamlined Amazon-style workflow. More details for this can be found here.

Follow-Up 126

Follow-Up Collaboration Medication Insurance 126

Doximity

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Third, we are teaming up with industry leader Press Ganey to offer real-time patient experience surveys delivered by text to patients immediately following any virtual visit. The collaborative service helps hospitals save money by reducing the need for more expensive phone- or mail-based patient surveys.

Patient Satisfaction 52

Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Follow-Up Collaboration 52

Minority Nurse

MARCH 13, 2024

With over 14 years of experience leading care teams for patients with complex medical conditions, she is passionate nursing leader who fosters dynamic and supportive work environments that encourage continuous learning and professional growth. Accessibility promotes open communication and collaboration.

Unit Organization and Environment 105

Unit Organization and Environment Collaboration Teamwork Patient Care 105

MedicalGPS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This understanding will also help your care team set patient expectations and improve the patient experience as it relates to telephone communication with your practice. Correlation Analysis: Key Touch Points of the Patient Experience. Assign each message to a staff member for follow-up.

Patient Experience 52

Patient Experience Communication Follow-Up Collaboration 52

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer gauged U.S. public health, as well.

Collaboration 108

Collaboration Best Practices Triage Follow-Up 108

Medical Advantage

JUNE 14, 2024

How Value-Based Care is Transforming the Patient Experience In the not-so-distant past, patients held a passive role in healthcare submissively following the lead of providers and sharing minimal information. VBC also promotes greater collaboration between providers to make care delivery more efficient.

Patient Centered Care 52

Patient Centered Care Patient Satisfaction Collaboration Follow-Up 52

MedicalGPS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Endeavor for Excellence: Step 4 – Establish Performance Baselines If you have been following along for the redeployment of MedicalGPS’ service improvement program, this week we move into Step #4 — establishing baseline performance measures. Review the list. If that is the case, great!

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Patient Experience Patient Satisfaction Appointments 52

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

When a new technology or product starts to get used in a market, it follows a diffusion curve whose slope depends on the pace of adoption in that market. The first chart from the CDC illustrates that dramatic growth in the use of telehealth ratcheting up since the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in the U.S.

Follow-Up 83

Follow-Up Appointments Collaboration Communication 83

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2022

Increasingly, voice tech will be used for health care tasks and workflows among both clinicians and providers as well as patients, caregivers, and consumers. In the convergence of voice and health, Teladoc announced a collaboration with Alexa, discussed in this press release. and Arlington where it already operates.

Collaboration 62

Collaboration Follow-Up Insurance Medication 62

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Some innovators have invested the time and money to undergo FDA clearance; some have collaborated with health care providers and researchers to build evidence cases and calculate cost-effectiveness or ROI for their use. Life video telehealth adoption was most prominent among younger patients, 18 to 34, living in urban geographies.

HIPAA 82

HIPAA Follow-Up Collaboration Medication 82

Mobius MD

MAY 15, 2024

Consider that most outpatient visits consist of four stages : Gathering data Physical examination and data synthesis Medical decision-making Patient education and implementing plan-of-care In a traditional practice model, the physician is responsible for all or most of these four stages. Distributing tasks this way isn’t a new idea.

Documentation 59

Documentation Clinical Assistant Medical Assistant Follow-Up 59

Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In collaboration with highly-qualified doctors and healthcare providers, we’ve built a digital health platform that is changing the way people talk about and receive the care they need.” Now consider GoodRx, linking up with HeyDoctor to help the prescription drug discounting platform expand telehealth services.

Follow-Up 64

Follow-Up Collaboration Insurance Medication 64

Guideway Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In a recent article published in Healthcare Business News, Craig Parker, CEO, Guideway Care, delves into the transformative role that care guidance plays in addressing non-clinical factors that contribute significantly to patient issues, totaling up to 80%. healthcare system.

Patient Care 52

Patient Care Follow-Up Communication Appointments 52

Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

It also helps to maintain the flow of data between healthcare providers, allowing for timely interventions, follow-up care, and medications. Patients no longer have to worry about ‘what’s next?’ This enhances patient experience and satisfaction because it eliminates stress.

Medication 52

Medication Follow-Up Appointments Tests 52

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

For early discharge monitoring , being moved from inpatient monitoring to home monitoring with follow-up care and support, again in the comfort and safety of that patient’s home. Today, Verizon announced its entry into the smart ring marketspace in collaboration with Ultrahuman’s Ring AIR product line.

Vital Signs 71

Vital Signs Hospital Collaboration Discharges 71

Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

This is the eighth annual global FHI report, with detailed country-specific analyses to follow for the U.S. ” The FHI 2023 research revealed three major themes: To address clinician shortages and burnout, and solve financial pressures, investments in AI will ratchet up to enhance clinical decision support and productive workflows.

Acute Care 62

Acute Care Hospital Collaboration Follow-Up 62

Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2019

Disney Institute’s Julianna Alley followed up with a discussion about Disney’s values and success factors. A central tenet of this, I came to learn this week, was the following mantra: “We have learned to be intentional where others may be unintentional.”. In Steve’s words, “Fox people [link up] with Fox, and CNN’s with CNN’s.”.

Follow-Up 87

Follow-Up Patient Experience Collaboration Medication 87

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

Step back to consider the patient journey and continuum of care, from lab tests and radiology imaging to the nurse conversation, the physician exam, and follow-up with a specialist or nutritionist for food-as-medicine counsel. Further value could be realized by integrating Copilot into the EHR.

Unit Organization and Environment 71

Unit Organization and Environment Collaboration Acute Care Documentation 71

MedicalGPS

JANUARY 11, 2023

It is imperative that the scheduling problem be solved to provide adequate care, improve patient satisfaction, increase revenue and make the physician’s practice run as smoothly as possible. Following are key strategies to make scheduling more efficient. Provider guidance is the key.

Scheduling 52

Scheduling Appointments Patient Satisfaction Follow-Up 52